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I found this Red Hat server minimal install question while searching google for debian minimal install.

User shylent wrote thet he uses really basic debian install so small that processes can count on one hand fingers :D.

So Im searching and asking for starting point to create basic linux distro but not from scratch like LFS but make linux distro based on debian for example.

I used debootstrap but still it is 150M large.

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What are your requirements for the system? The Debian mini.iso install disk which is arguably a version Debian disk weights in at about 8-12MB depending on arch. But, that disk is really only useful for doing installs.

If you expect to run applications you will probably need to include lots of libraries and related tools or recompile things to only have the features that are essential to what you are trying to do.

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Damn Small Linux is based on Debian. The development has been pretty much non-existent lately, but I run it on a P3 733Mhz/32MB Sony laptop that i converted to a picture frame and it's plenty fast even for that hardware

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